Jon Opstad
Jon Opstad (born 1983, Bristol, England) is a British composer. He studied music at St Catharine's College, Cambridge, and film composition at the National Film and Television School. His film and television work includes scoring two episodes of Charlie Brooker’s critically acclaimed dystopian television drama Black Mirror, including the 2014 feature-length special White Christmas, starring Jon Hamm, Rafe Spall and Oona Chaplin. Other scores include the Channel 4 dramas Cyber Bully and Blackout, the ‘Pals’ episode of BBC Three drama Our World War and the award-winning documentary feature film A World Not Ours, directed by Mahdi Fleifel. He was the co-composer (with Sheridan Tongue) on several episodes of series 16 of BBC One crime drama Silent Witness.
Opstad was nominated for a 2014 British Composer Award, in the Stage Works category, for his score for the contemporary dance theatre production Ignis, first staged in February 2014 at The Print Room in west London, choreographed by Hubert Essakow and featuring actor Sara Kestelman.
